Between Freedom Flight and Fleet Action

[Maniac II]

How much of a time gap is there in between the two if anyone knows?

 

[Aries]

Freedom Flight is 2655. Fleet Action is 2668. that is 13 years.

 

[Maniac II]

Thanks

 

[Maniac II]

Hey, this is off topic but, how do you get to put a quote on the bottom of you message (was that the signature thing on the registration?) Sorry if i sound like a stupid pleab!

 

[Aries]

yes it is the sig on the bottom of the registration. and don't worry about it. everyone gots to start learning sometime. BTW it's spelled plebe

 

[Meson]

You add it from your control panel. Click on "user c[" on top of the page,a nd then select "edit Profile".

 

[Maniac II]

Hunter...

I know it said in the book Fleet Action , but what happened to Hunter when the Tiger's Claw was attacked... didnt he like crash land on a planet and had to wait for evac. for a long while?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Re: Hunter...

Originally posted by Maniac II
I know it said in the book Fleet Action , but what happened to Hunter when the Tiger's Claw was attacked... didnt he like crash land on a planet and had to wait for evac. for a long while?

You're thinking of "Vanderman", refered to only ever in that section of Fleet Action. Hunter was simply still on furlough when the Tiger's Claw was destroyed.

 

[Delance]

Vanderman, almost as famous as Bacon Boy.

 

[Maniac II]

Originally posted by Delance
Vanderman, almost as famous as Bacon Boy.

????Bacon Boy.... is that another almost unheared of pilot???

 

[Bandit LOAF]

During the Tamayo scramble mission in WC3, wingmen are replaced by the Victory if they're shot down. If Maniac dies, Hobbes shows up, if Hobbes dies, Vagabond shows up, and so forth. If you go through enough wingmen (all the main character and then the background characters like Mitchell and Primate), the Victory will launch... BACON BOY!

It's a really obscure piece of WC lore, since it absolutely won't ever happen naturally. If you just sit there and let Maniac play the mission, he'll almost certainly win it for you... so you never find out that there are other pilots, much less a BACON BOY.

Thus, Bacon Boy has become a popular part of WC fandom.

 

[Delance]

Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
If you go through enough wingmen (...) the Victory will launch... BACON BOY!]

True, so very true. People doubt it, but he did exist.

Now I do remember seeing Bacon Boy flying escort on the Victory on a different mission. One of those ships (sometimes with nameless piltos) that fly around the carrier. Perhaps it's a random thing.

Thus, Bacon Boy has become a popular part of WC fandom.

Bacon Boy is the Jek Porkins of Wing Commander.

 

[Maniac II]

Bacon Boy is the Jek Porkins of Wing Commander.

Why... Porkins wasnt mentioned any less, or anymore than any of the other pilots (Well except Wedge, my personal fav., and Dack)